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AUTOPSY OF BLASPHEMY
Chico

This essay (Publisher Brew , Rome, 2004) marked the debut of the author, Simon Colaiacomo, which analyzes the blasphemy starting from a historical study of religions past and present. Trafficking in a simple and understandable arguments always faced with fear, such as the clash between the various religious dogmas.
Today's society has often acts as acts of blasphemy not to culture, the use of blasphemy becomes a leap, and not just an irreverent towards God is easy at this point to ask questions, for example because of a topic such as blasphemy. The author of this question
responded as follows:

"Treat the blasphemy was not easy at first, because I had to struggle with many difficulties relating to the" conceptual distance "that exists between human beings and the multitudes of today's western cultures and civilizations have existed and exist. Take one of the contemporary Shintoism, Buddhism, Islam, or between the ancient cultures, the Egyptian, Sumerian, or Scandinavian. Habits, beliefs, lifestyles so different that lead easily to rise, without thinking, made a wall of prejudice and contempt towards the "different", and for this, as the bearer of bad aura, evil.
Blasphemy is an act of rejection of a deity, their own or another is irrelevant, which often comes from a very specific motivation that has nothing to do with the god insulted, but it is nothing but a reflection of discomfort that the "blasphemous" grows in the breast, latent or manifest it. "

Why call the book" Autopsy of blasphemy?
"A wise man like that needed a total immersion in the plots of the most delicate question. Initially I had chosen, because still uncertain on many points, name it after analysis of blasphemy. Then, even talking with friends and colleagues, demonstrating the importance of being able to get "inside" the argument. In fact an autopsy allowed the freedom to explore the theme of "blasphemy", without running the risk of causing any form of damages (what could be done with a biopsy, then on living creatures). Also became an analysis in retrospect, especially for all those cults of the past that are now effectively "dead."

What is the message he wanted to give with this essay?
"Living beings have much need to go closer than those that diversity of religion or culture. The outsiders should not exist in human nature: this condition is the result of conditioning, the stereotypes, the age-old lessons that no longer make sense. We should learn about the diversity of others, trying to take the good that they contain, and do not despise a priori. What I say is the foundation of the ethics of the respect that is the heart of Anthropology of coexistence, such as to be able to touch the empathy, allowing everyone to learn to ask the point of view. "

The attempt of this work is, therefore, lead us to reflect on the current situation, when they have a valid documentation, not only making use of pseudo-religious bias, to ensure, in the words of Lord Robert Baden Powell Stivenson Smith, each of us leave the world a little better than he found it "..